Pezobres / Pezobrés / San Esteban de Pezobrés / Santo Estevo de Pezobrés

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de Santo Estevo de Pezobrés. Portada meridional."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2010 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/4557718875/in/photostream/] [accessed 15 September 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de Santo Estevo de Pezobrés. Detalle del tímpano de la portada meridional."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2010 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/4558350708/in/photostream/] [accessed 15 September 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2010 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/4557720771/in/photostream/] [accessed 15 September 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Scene Description: The entry for this church in the web site of the Asociación Melisa [www.abeancos.gal/elemento/igrexa-de-pezobrés] [accessed 15 September 2019] states that the church was dismanteled and moved to nearby [about 1 km) San Benito in the 18thC; this same source states [cf. FontNotes] that an Agnus Dei from somewhere in the original Romanesque building was placed at the top of the belfty of the re-built church; it also claims that the 'Agnus' appears to be rather a "carneiro" [a hogget, i.e., a 1-2 year old sheep] with well-developed "cornamenta" [horns], and that the cross it carries is a 'cross pattée' -- unfortunately these details are not discernible in this image.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2010 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/4557715979/in/photostream/] [accessed 15 September 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de Santo Estevo de Pezobrés. Portada occidental."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2010 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/4558347924/in/photostream/] [accessed 15 September 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de Santo Estevo de Pezobrés. Detalle del tímpano de la portada occidental."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2010 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/4557717907/in/photostream/] [accessed 15 September 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 22341PEZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban de Pezobrés / Igrexa Parroquial do Santo Estevo de Pezobrés [church moved to San Benito]
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: A, Lugar San Benito, 9, 15808 San Benito, Coruña, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Coruña, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the AC-191 and the AC-840, S of Melide, in the municipality of Santiso, E of Santiago de Compostela [NB: San Benito is about a km ENE of Pezobrés]
Historical Region: Terra de Melide
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church Notes: the 12th-13thC church of Pezobrés was moved to nearby San Benito in the 18thC
Font Notes:
[NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here] The entry for this church in the web site of the Asociación Melisa [www.abeancos.gal/elemento/igrexa-de-pezobrés] [accessed 15 September 2019] notes: "Esta igrexa románica [...] Cronoloxía: Século XII-XIII [...] foi traslada no século XVIII desde a aldea de Pezobrés ó seu actual emprazamento en San Benito. Como consecuencia deste traslado sufriu importantes alteracións na súa arquitectura: posible elevación da nave, perda da ábsida orixinal e a inapropiada ubicación do Agnus Dei, situado actualmente sobre a espadana. Débense destacar os elementos propios da fábrica románica especialmente as portadas oeste e sur, os once canzorros do lenzo norte e os trece do lenzo sur, ademais da representación do Agnus Dei situado sobre o cume da espadana, que representa un año ou máis ben un carneiro pola súa gran cornamenta, e polo deseño ben definido dos cuartos traseiros, extremidades e tamén polo labrado da pedra que reproduce dun xeito veraz a lá; sobre o carneiro disponse unha cruz patada. A porta oeste destácase polos seus capiteis con deseños xeométricos e vexetais e polo tímpano que representa unha cruz tetrafoliada (de catro follas) inscrita nun cadrado, este apoiase sobre dúas mochetas con representacións animais (bóvido e lobo). Destaca tamén a chambrana decorada con puntas de diamante. A porta sur aseméllase á porta oeste no seu deseño, destaca polos seus capiteis con decoración vexetal e polo tímpano que representa unha cruz grega inscrita nun arco polilobulado que se apoia sobre mochetas con decoración xeométrica (rolo e aspa). Ó igual que a porta oeste, a chambrana aparece decorada con puntas de diamante."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.870859, -8.0455265
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42º 52´ 15,14´´ N, 8º 2´ 43,69´´ W